Employees are only measured by their productivity. If you are unable to meet the expected productivity, there is a great chance that you will be terminated from your job because you are not doing what you were hired for in the first place.

You may come up with a thousand and one reasons why you cannot be productive for the moment, but your boss or supervisor would have none of it and will gladly show you the exit door.

Companies always make sure their employees are in their most comfortable or at least productive setting as much as possible. But there are times that productivity is stalled or prevented by different things and/or events in the office.

Worst, some of these things are not your fault. But do not just sit there blaming the person responsible affecting your productivity, do something about it. An entry level employee cannot just be helpless because it is through their productivity that the company grows. Some may not realize this but if you do not step up the productivity level quickly then things can just go down from there.

If you are an entry level employee, do not be afraid to speak up. You were hired for a reason and you can request for anything feasible just to make sure you reach your productivity quota or at least do the simple task assigned for you.

For example, if you think your room is too hot or too cold, simply ask around if they feel the same thing and request that some things should be changed.

Anticipation

Do not wait for disasters to happen to create a solution. You will always end up scrambling for ways to get things done. If you are planning to do something and you want them to happen without any problem, get everyone involved in monitoring, troubleshooting and solution making process if something goes wrong.

Before anything would happen, everything should have contingency plan or a “Plan B”. Everyone in the office should have a “Plan B”, to ensure that the process smooth sailing even when things happen at work that might prevent your productivity.

A good example of the right use of “Plan B” is when necessary services get cut off or malfunctioned in the middle of the work shift.

For example, power went down and everyone is already running in their UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply).  A large scale office would have a standby generator, which solves the problem as soon as it starts, but a small office will have to live with 3-5 minutes of power before everything is shut down. If everyone has a “Plan B”, things will just go smoothly even with all the problems that may be happening at the same time.

Through anticipation, you should be able to answer or address any upcoming problems, whether they are foreseen or unforeseen.

Never blame anyone for being inefficient. Employees should be productive as much as possible whatever the circumstances are. Create a contingency plan so that you will have a step by step process on how to deal with different types of problems.